October 17, 2009

24 comments:

I turn on the old computers to heat the house, which is as cheap as using the furnace, since it uses resistive heating. Every watt winds up as one watt of heat either way, so you might as well think with the watt first.

There are exactly 46764764308702440000 15X10 0-1 matrices with exactly 2 1's in each row and 3 1's in each column, one of them just determined.

Penny...I deleted my dumb comment, and now you quote from it. But what can you say that's not dumb about Swedes heating stuff by burning up Bugs Bunny. Maybe a global warming alert needs to go out to the UN about deadly CO2 from bunny smoke emissions.

Sometimes I think I could be a Peta person because I love animals so much. But I fight my emotions every day in an attempt to be a more objective human. I was given the gift of reason, and dammit, please help me to utilize it properly.

The birds and the squirrels and the cats and the deer and the dogs...and the bunnies... don't set out to be our entertainment or our teachers or our food or even our cause celebre . But they are ALL of these things, without knowing they are even one.

The issue of the rabbit overpopulation and what to do with it should have been resolved well before Stockholm had 6,000 rabbit corpses and limited choices on how to dispose of them.

Given that they had 6,000 frozen bunnies, it seems like incinerating them was not the worst choice. The framing of the headline makes it seem much worse, though. WTG, headline writer! Kudos to you, too, bunny photo- choosing-editor!

Well, what do you do with a lot of dead bunnies? PETA would want us to keep them alive and cherish them. But PETA has never really been in tough with the reality that some animal has to be at the top of the food chain, in particular, to keep all the herbivores in check, and it is just too dangerous to humans to leave the traditional predators there at the top of the food chain. So, one of our jobs in our newly anointed position at the top of the food chain is to do the job that the traditional predators did in controlling the populations of the animals below them that had developed high breeding levels as a species survival strategy.

Unfortunately for the Swedes, they had never apparently developed a taste for bunny. I would assume that this wouldn't have been a problem in some of the more enlightened countries like France.